Here come the open source culture = piracy articles… from CNN. “With the open-source culture on the Internet, the idea of ownership — of artistic ownership — goes away,” Alexie (novelist and poet Sherman Alexie) added. “It terrifies me.” It’s more terrifying when someone groups open source with piracy. In my experience, as an artist […]
Fractal polyhedra clusters By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics At The Math Museum, we are interested in making cool mathematical ideas accessible and tactile. With a good 3D printing machine, you can make beautiful fractal polyhedra clusters like the one below. This nylon model consists of twelve groups of twelve small stellated dodecahedra. […]
Garrett Mace, aka Macetech, built this LED NYE ball, using his own Macetech LED controller and Arduino shield kits (and a Seeduino). He writes: I used six Satellite Modules (high power RGB LED arrays), six ShiftBars (three channel LED controllers), a Seeeduino, and a ShiftBrite Shield to build a New Year’s ball for our own […]
Sascha Grant posted images of his square rocket build (built around a BT-50 body tube) on the MAKE Flickr pool. Rocket Squared
Here are some of my favorites from CRAFT this week: Fire Power Fingerless Gloves Polymer Clay R2D2 Sculpture Make, Not Bake, a Forest Cake
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Bird in Hand mittens by alyssakai, custom banjos by Pretty Little Fings, michelangelo’s sock david: the face by jek in the box, and skull print hoodie by Camilla Taylor.
I live in a two-story house and have two kiddos. It’s practically impossible for them to carry their laundry baskets downstairs. This pattern for a handy laundry bag from Kristin of Craft Leftovers just might be the thing to make for them so they can easily bring down their dirty clothes. Now if there was […]
